ship-registers

name	ship-registers
description	Use official Estonian ship register sources for vessel registration and maritime registry governance context.

Ship Registers

Use when

• You need official vessel registration context.
• You need ship-register fields for compliance/governance analysis.

Avoid when

• You need port infrastructure records only.

Inputs

• Vessel identifier, register type, and period.

Outputs

• Structured vessel register extract and status fields.

Primary endpoints

• Ship register (Ministry of Justice): https://www.just.ee/en/legal-services/ship-register
• Estonian ship registers info: https://www.transpordiamet.ee/en/vehicle-ship-airplane/ships/estonian-ship-registers

Workflow

1. Determine relevant ship register type.
2. Extract available vessel registration fields.
3. Normalize vessel and status identifiers.
4. Return structured dataset with provenance.

Human setup (when needed)

• If register browsing/export is manual-only, guide user through the process and continue from supplied results.

Quality checks

• Keep register type explicit in outputs.
• Separate active registration from historical/inactive states.

Access reality

• Public access type: UI page with direct downloadable files.
• Verification run: 2026-02-24.
• https://www.transpordiamet.ee/en/vehicle-ship-airplane/ships/estonian-ship-registers (HTTP 200, text/html;, file links detected: 12)

Request contract

• Use the listed primary endpoints as authoritative entry points.
• If API/query parameters are only visible in-browser, preserve exact request URL, params, and headers in output metadata.
• If endpoint is UI-only, document click path and extraction method used.

Output schema expectations

• Keep at least: source URL, retrieval timestamp, publication/update date (if available), title/record label, and extracted governance-relevant fields.
• Preserve original field names when present in downloadable/API output.

Limits and caveats

• Confirm whether data is open-download, UI-only, or authenticated before claiming full access.
• Separate narrative/guidance text from measurable records.

Verification hooks

• Validate endpoint reachability and content type before extraction.
• Validate that each extracted claim is linked to a concrete source URL.